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 148 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP. VI. 1»< Period. His charge. Overthrow of the two Borodiuo battalions immediately confronting liim. and the head of his foremost colunin was already within a few yards, when Colonel Mauleverer himself, the Adjutant of the regiment Lieutenant Walker, and indeed, as it seems, all the offi- cers who were acting with this wing of the 30th, rose and mounted to the top of the wall. Yet there they stood hardly a moment. With scarce a glance back to tlieir people, they frankly leapt down to the enemy's side of the Barrier. In an instant, the men were up, and following over the wall. Without further recourse to their wetted firelocks, but welcoming with a joyful hurrah the sudden time for the bayonet, they sprang at the nearest battalion whilst still in its company columns, and were presently tearing their way through the loose, shapeless swarm. Mauleverer himself was gravely wounded, and numbers of his officers and men fell killed or disabled;* but the encounter, if bloody, was slioi't. The shreds of tbe enemy's company col- umns, thrown back in a lieap of confusion upon the solid mass coming up in support, seemed to bring it to instajit ruin, for that last body also, though it scarce could have felt English steel, began to i'all back in disorder; and within a 1)i-icl 404) were in kiUwl and wounded 127, including Captain Conolly and Lieutenant Gibson killed, and Colonel Mauleverer, Captain Rose, Captain Dickson, Captain Bayley, and Lieutenant Lewln wounded (the last of them mortally) ; and it is believed that the particular encounter sustained, as above described, by only a wing of the regiment, is the one in which Conolly, Gibson, «nd Lewin were mortally, and Rayley sevciel)' wounded.
 * 'I'he losses of fJic wlioli- rcgiinciit (which had a strength of